The procedure is performed with general anesthesia using a special endotracheal tube that allows intentional collapse of the lung which is operated ... the completeness of resection and ...

How do you treat early-stage lung cancer? We mainly use video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery or VATS — in which a thoracoscope, a thin flexible tube with a light and camera, is introduced into ...

When lung cancer is found early ... increasingly being done in a less invasive procedure called video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS). Not all surgeons perform this procedure.

The safety of three therapeutic methods, each featuring electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy-guided microwave ablation, was established in patients with multiple bilateral ground-glass opacities, ...

The global lung cancer surgery market is poised for transformative growth from 2025 to 2035, driven by the increasing ...

Our results suggest that patients with COPD who undergo VATS for lung wedge resections and for pleural/mediastinal biopsy should receive antibiotic prophylaxis to prevent surgical site infection.

metastatectomy for lung secondaries from other tumours (sarcoma/colon tumours); VATS lobectomy for lung cancer; lung bullectomy for bullae; lung volume reduction operations for emphysema, bronchogenic ...